Democrat Angel Ramirez defeated Republican Bernie Hayes in an Iowa special election for the State House, in what the Democratic Party hailed as a "clear rebuke of Trump."

Ramirez secured 79 percent of the vote versus Hayes' 21 percent, according to preliminary results for the state's 78th district in Cedar Rapids.

But turnout was just 3,470, or 17.4 percent of registered voters in the district—down sharply from the 11,168 votes in 2024.

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[$0/$313] Car registration + state ID/driver's license

I’m trying to fundraise to keep my home, a 2006 Scion xA that I’ve been living in since it was gifted to me in November (I’m homeless and was just like, on the streets, living on the sidewalk and shit before the car).

Having this car has changed my life so much for the better. I’ve forgotten what it’s like to go weeks, sometimes months at a time without really eating. I actually give a fuck about getting my life back together after almost a decade of fucking myself off.

So it’s really fucking scary that the car is unregistered, and that I don’t have a driver’s license. If I get pulled over by a cop who’s having a particularly bad day, I’ll be on the streets again.

And barring that, having a DL and a registered car opens a lot of doors for me.

It’s $65 to get an Oregon state DL. Registration fees for the car amount to $248.

But I also need money for gas, food, and other shit I need to enjoy life: clean clothes, hygiene stuff, etc. So I don’t have a set goal.

CashApp/Venmo: allthetimesivedied

PayPal: [email protected] (my friend’s, I don’t have a PayPal account.)

Thanks.

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😀 I love art. Does art love me? I’m not sure. Self portrait is hard. It feels like I HAVE TO KNOW MYSELF AND THIS ART IS AN EFFORT TO DEFINE ONESELF and it is like AHHHHHHHHHH I can’t do it. Oh well. ! I had another draft before this, then I started pinching slapping scratching punching the canvas (not with my whole strength) with paint and frustration! After like weeks I finally revisited this, and I think… I THINK THIS IS GOING SOMEWHERE!! (Added the snail person and sea TODAY)

I’m not the paint master, nor a knower of the strokes, just a lover of the arts 👍

Mmm, I’m not very experienced with painting, or oil paints, so please let me knoweth of your tips and suggestions! :D

Learning to be faster, not worry about visible brush stroke texture, accept mistakes and draw confidently and not try to hone into one spot over and over

All I wanted was to play the Factorio expansion, but Lemmy told me "Why play an imitation factory game when you could experience the original that inspired them all - gregtech?" So I did. Five months later, here we are.

TerraFirmaGreg is an unholy fusion of TerraFirmaCraft and GregTechCEu Modern. I just picked whatever modpack was popular at the time and ran on modern minecraft (1.20.1), and got pretty lucky with my pick. This gregtech version is actively developed, and while it is not the hardest greg out there, in combination with TerraFirma it becomes maybe 2nd hardest overall. It takes like 200 hours just to get an electric furnace! Congrats to the devs for making it all work.

There are some bugs here and there, some that even seemed like they would block progression, but turns out there is an in-game workaround for every one of those, and the entire full intended progression is currently completable in survival! I've used some creative-mode workarounds for non-game-breaking bugs, like spawning in Firmalife compost tumblers (and waterwheels to power them) and greenhouse sprinklers, which exist and work but are missing a recipe, and tier 2 space rockets which are also missing a recipe. I heard some more bugs have been fixed by the devs since, but I was too afraid to update an already working installation.

The game balance is here and there, but again everything is completable in the end. Like any proper factory game, the lack of any particular resource at any point in progression is more a problem of insufficient production for that resource than of game balance per se :D The exponential growth power curve smooths out all kinks after a couple doubling steps anyway.

I can even kinda agree with keeping fire clay so rare, a controversial topic in itself that the devs have resisted to budge on. You have to travel over 10k blocks to the equator to find it. While it is annoying to have to spend an hour in a boat each way, in retrospect I appreciate having being able to experience the full range of TerraFirma biomes. I might not even have known they existed if I did not have this reason to go on this journey, or have adventures like being suddenly chased by an alligator. It's also fun to build and use multiblock sailing ships, for which sailing to the equator is their primary purpose.

For some ideas going forward, I'd like to see the spaceflight part of the modpack completed further. The rocket recipes fixed up, some tier 2 spacesuits, and the planets populated with lategame ore. Alpha Centauri (once it actually works) would be a great place to stick ~~unobtainium~~ naquadah, as I had to stripmine my entire overworld in search for it to make trinium for fusion coils. I heard the devs even raised naquadah spawns since then, but outer space would be a great alternative place for it.

I would also like to mention the youtubers Dragonium and Flurben who are doing a complete playthrough series of the modpack as a team. My experience with the modpack has been made ever more satisfying by being able to see other players go through the same challenges I did as I was doing it, and to compare their solutions. The Dragonium terrafirmagreg tips for every tech age sequence is particularly high production value and useful. Thx!

I wanted to post this report somewhere, and this latestagecapitalism sublemmy is the only existing community on this server dedicated to all things gregtech (and also someone named greg unrelated to gregtech, but mainly gregtech :D), so I'll post here. To fit the theme, here's a map marking all the resources I have mined out that were necessary for progression. Devastating all landscape within a 3000 block radius to further factory needs is latestagecapitalism, right?

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tl;dr: my cat was getting lazy, and was developing health issues, so i wanted to make something to trick him into exercising more. I did this by attaching a treat dispenser to a cat wheel, and giving him treats when hes ran certain distances.

This was my entry for the printables smart pet gadget contest. https://www.printables.com/model/1278945-smart-cat-treat-dispenser-for-one-fast-cat-wheel

There were a few back-to-back all nighters right at the end in order to get this submitted in time (managed to submit 7 minutes before the deadline!) - so the code is all kind of lumped in one file. Ill clean the code up in the upcoming weeks, but the short bullet point list of features are:

• Almost entirely 3D printed (other than a motor, 4 bearings, some sensors, and the nuts and bolts
• Detects that the treat level is low before completely running out! no more sad cats that hear the food dispenser going off, only to be left with an empty belly!
• Self hosted wifi configuration page (connect to the AP, go to 192.168.4.1, enter your wifi settings, and it will join your wifi network
• Completely self hosted web UI / API - configure all your settings, vend treats remotely from other smart devices, and track your cats stats!
• MQTT support - connect your treat dispenser to a platform like homeassistant to see graphs of your cats activity and be alerted to when the treat dispenser is almost out of treats.
• simple electronics (no analog components other than resistors for some LED's)
• cool design features like internal wire channels so theres minimal exposed wiring (other than power, and a single connector to connect a hall effect sensor to the treat dispenser for detecting cat wheel rotation)

Astrazeneca's boss has warned Europe is falling behind as it steps up investment in the United States.

Pascal Soriot said innovation in pharmaceuticals ‘has mostly been funded by the US’ as he doubled down on plans to grow the business in America – which already accounts for 40 per cent of revenues.

Following a court order that blocks Apple from taking a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says on X that the company plans to bring Fortnite back to iOS in the US “next week.”

The app hasn’t been available on iOS in the US since August 2020, when Apple kicked it off the App Store for implementing Epic’s own in-app payment system in violation of Apple’s rules. Since then, Apple and Epic have been embroiled in an ongoing legal battle, including a ruling more in Apple’s favor in 2021 and today’s ruling that is a major victory for Epic.

We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week.Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic. https://t.co/bIRTePm0Tv

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) April 30, 2025

Fortnite has returned to iOS in the EU, but only via Epic’s own mobile app store, which isn’t available in the US.

Sweeney also offered a “peace proposal” from Epic to Apple in his post on X. “If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.”

Apple didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.

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